Normally, calling someone a legend in stand up comedy is another way of introducing a comic who’s past his prime and skating by on name recognition alone. Thankfully, this is not the case when you hear that the legendary Paul Mooney will be performing in South Florida. He’s written for…
Sol Theatre was good, and then it was bad, and then it was gone. Somewhere between a mind-melting production of The True Nature of Love and Unidentified Human Remains at the end of 2006 and a limp-dick trainwreck called Two Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter’s Night last…
What defines tacky in double-wide decorating can redefine grand in the airy space of grand hotel or luxurious mansion. Defying both minimalism and conservatism — and, some would say, good taste — Dorothy Draper never did anything bitsy or understated, and she loathed anything “gravy” — that is, brown. A…
Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless army deserter and con-man, able to fool people into believing he’s both a substitute teacher and a master of hand-to-hand combat. It’s a part that requires bluster,…
Sometimes it’s the terrible ideas — say, a TV show about nothing, or stirring corn into your mashed potatoes — that turn out to be genius. Super Smash Bros. landed on the Nintendo 64 nearly 10 years ago, kicking off a concept that initially sounded nauseating: “lovable Nintendo characters in…
The Winter Music Conference blows into town tomorrow, and it’s going to tantalize you with a flurry of sights and sounds, and then it will leave you – alone and shaking in the gutter, fiending for more. We’re totally looking forward to that feeling, but you may be into something…
Shoot, we know as well as anyone that going out early on a Friday is so passé, and that fashionably late is the coolest kind of arrival. But let’s face it: Being cool is boring. There’s lots to do early on Friday nights, and that list just got even longer,…
Focus, Francophiles! The Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach) is presenting an impressive collection of works from Edouard Boubat and Robert Doisneau, some of France’s most important photographers of the 20th century. You’ve undoubtedly seen Doisneau’s “Kiss by the Hotel de Ville” (wherein two lovers…
Bust out the glow sticks and the rave wear, because the Winter Music Conference, Florida’s annual electronic answer to SXSW is kicking off this week all throughout Miami. While the crux of WMC is the industry-only conference where electro bigwigs gather to do biz, the real fun comes from the…
About this time last year I took my parents and girlfriend to see The Moody Blues in concert at Hard Rock Live (5747 Seminole Way, Hollywood). My girlfriend and I were the youngest people in our section by at least 100. (Months? Years? Eons? You choose.) The show was a…
Critics of the current presidential administration often concede that while Bush and his crew are bumbling, ineffectual leaders, they are masterful media manipulators. You’d have to be, to survive the constant media barrage and investigation that’s plagued Bush’s presidency, right? Well, not so much. We think of journalists as people…
Imagine for a second that you’re an immigrant youngster: Your father is borderline suicidal, and your nympho mom’s screwed everyone in town except the village idiot. That’s director Richard Roxburgh’s Romulus, My Father – a pleasant bundle of childhood memories guaranteed to culminate into decades of psychotherapy. It’s rural Australia,…
In the grand scheme of things, Easter is quite a bummer of a holiday. Even if you’re a really bad Christian, chances are your parents, girlfriend, or grandmother will guilt you into going to church today — “at least once in your heathen life.” The promise of candy will probably…
You’d love them if they weren’t so scaly… and didn’t hatch from eggs. But that’s the life of a misunderstood reptile. Not blessed with petting fur, the cold-blooded tetrapods receive only scorn and fear from their human counterparts. The Museum of Discovery and Science (401 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale)…
When South Beach’s glitterati saunter around this evening, they might want to wear uncomplicated shoes – after all, the punks are swarming. A local group of activists have organized an Alley Cat Race for Take Back the Land on Saturday (meet-up is at Lincoln and Washington, South Beach), and folks…
The vernal equinox gets ickily Freudian for neopagans who are serious about their theology, for it is the time when the fast-maturing sun god/grain god/whateverthehell begins dating his mum. They’ll consummate their relationship in May, and enjoy the giddy lives of newlyweds until he croaks at the end of October…
What if excess levels of cuteness were actually harmful to your health? Puppies would have to be banned from public places in fear that two or more might congregate. Babies would require warning tags, and painted William Shatner masks like the one Michael Myers wears in Halloween. Icanhascheezburger.com would quite…
Why would you bother to mix your martial arts when Muay Thai alone is so much fun? It is to traditional American boxing what Hanukkah is to Christmas: Instead of one way of punching, you get eight crazy body parts. Fists? Check. Elbows? Hell, yes. Knees and shins? Absorb a…
Just when we think that the Miami Heat’s season can’t get any worse, the AP reports that Pat Riley’s just as disenchanted as we are. He’s even cutting class so he can scout during the NCAA tournament. That makes perfect sense! The team is obviously being coached very well right…
Just when you thought you’d seen the last American plagiarism of an Asian horror movie, another is airlifted across the Pacific. Shutter is the latest of them: the story of a Yankee couple honeymooning in Japan. Blobs are appearing in the pictures they take at tourist sites. It comes to…
George Thorogood knows it’s 2008, but he doesn’t care. He don’t give a flip about your nonironic mullet hair, second-hand smoke, or trans-fats. How ‘bout that naked mermaid tattoo on your neck? He’s not bothered. GT is ugly, loud, probably drunk, and he makes your mama nervous. But guess what?…
The Jackson Five. The Osmonds. The Culkins. While those are all fine Hollywood clans in their own rights, we would simply scoff if they released new works under the moniker “The Talent Family.” That title is reserved exclusively for Amy and David Sedaris. Aside from their other, more lucrative efforts,…
